This is Walter, our four-year-old Basset Hound, having a snooze with his good buddy Winston the Cat. It’s been tough Walter week. It began on Sunday (in the first picture) and gradually got worse. One week and three vet trips later, what turned out to be an abscess is now an ordeal. Walter is very brave. Elizabeth and I are wrecks.
Sunday
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Monday
Tuesday. Vet trip #1.
Thursday, after a long telephone vet consultation.
Friday, at the Atascadero Pet Hospital. Vet trip #2.
Aunt Evie’s morale-restoring visit, Friday.
Friday night. He whimpered a lot.
Saturday.
Saturday, on the bed we made for him on the floor.
Sunday morning: The drainage site came open.
Sunday, at the Arroyo Grande emergency vet. He’s there now; they’re going to have to sedate him, clean out the wound and hope to find any foreign object–a foxtail, a chicken-bone fragment–that might still be there. Vet trip #3.
Home from the vet, Sunday evening.
Fortunately, the emergency vet is Dr. Elizabeth Adam, one of Elizabeth Gregory’s students at St. Joe. She saved Winston the Cat’s life. She also found the foxtail, near Walter’s eye, that caused the infection.
A Work in Progress 